The lesson taught us by these kindly commentators on my present experience is that dogmatic faith compels the best minds and hearts to narrowness and insolence.

Religion is a temper, not a pursuit.

There is no death to those who perfectly love-only disappearance, which in time may be borne.

If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power.

Marriage ... is still the imperfect institution it must remain while women continue to be ill-educated, passive, and subservient.

We do not believe in immortality because we can't prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it.

There are always principles to be depended upon in this matter of taxation ... Amidst the inconsistent, the bewildering representations offered, a certain number must be in accordance with true principles.